JTS’s 122nd Commencement Exercises
Date: May 17, 2016 - May 17, 2016
Time: 10:00 a.m.
Sponsor: Public Lectures and Events
Location: JTS
Category: Public Lectures & Events
We invite you to watch the 122nd JTS Commencement Exercises
Commencement Exercises: begin at 10:00 a.m. (EDT)
Ordination and Investiture Ceremony: begins at 3:30 p.m. (EDT)
Program Highlights:
• Commencement Address by Secretary of the Treasury Jacob J. Lew
• Presentation of honorary degrees to six distinguished guests in recognition of their service and achievements:
Ms. Roz Chast, Celebrated New Yorker cartoonist and author
Mrs. Karen W. Davidson, Noted communal leader and philanthropist
Dr. Michael Fishbane, Nathan Cummings Distinguished Service Professor of Jewish Studies, University of Chicago
Mr. Abraham H. Foxman, National Director emeritus of the Anti-Defamation League
Secretary of the Treasury Jacob J. Lew
The Honorable Jonathan Lippman, Former Chief Judge of the State of New York
• Awarding of diplomas to JTS graduates, and bestowing of tallitot at the ordination and investiture ceremony to those entering the rabbinate and cantorate
• Charge to the Graduates by Professor Arnold M. Eisen, Chancellor, JTS
• Performances by the H. L. Miller Cantorial School Chorus
